Fungi are critical to human life and the planet. They recycle nutrients, helping keep our soil and plants healthy; they store ...

Inhalers that combine relieving breathlessness with preventing it seem to be the most effective option for reducing asthma ...

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, in the late 1980s. Fast forward a few decades and the web has over 5.5 billion users. It ...

Severe lung inflammation has been linked to symptoms resembling post-traumatic stress disorder in mice, which could help us better treat and prevent the mental health condition ...

Novels need a gripping story to stay popular as the decades pass, but it seems that other less-obvious factors may also ...

Marcus Gipps, an editor at large at Gollancz, worked with Ursula K. Le Guin in the final months of her life. Le Guin is one of the most highly regarded writers in science fiction and fantasy; her ...

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

The rhythm of an infant's brain activity seems to put them in constant learning mode, whereas that of an adult may allow them ...

Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere ...

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

Mixing nanoparticles into some common plastics made them harder to break and possibly easier to process, pointing towards a ...